The most successful presidents keep to themselves, not to Twitter

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“The Mueller report makes Trump look vain, ignorant, inept and astonishingly dishonest.” So writes my Washington Examiner colleague Quin Hillyer, never an enthusiast of Donald Trump.

He is referring to one passage which shows the president ordering his White House counsel to arrange the firing of the special counsel, then ordering him to state in writing he never said that; to a second passage suggesting that Trump was dangling pardons to cooperative aides; and to other passages in which Trump vents his rage at the protracted investigation which eventually, after almost two years, found no evidence that he or his people colluded with Russia.

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